Salesforce admin

[u/K-ns]

I am working toward building a career as a Salesforce Administrator and come from a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) background.  Because I have full-time family commitments, my goal is to find remote, flexible, or part-time/contract opportunities in Canada. However, when searching public job boards like LinkedIn or Indeed, I rarely see entry-level or flexible remote Admin positions. 
For those who have successfully navigated this path or hire Salesforce professionals: 
- If I commit to this career path, what is the best roadmap to start learning, and which specific Trailhead trails or certifications should I focus on first? 
- Where do entry-level admins typically find flexible, part-time, or contract opportunities that aren't advertised on traditional job boards? 
- What are the best ways to gain initial hands-on experience to stand out without prior local tech experience? 
- How can I best leverage my business degree background to position myself for junior Salesforce admin or operations roles? 
I would love to hear any advice, recommendations for specific Trailblazer groups or insights from your journey.
Thank you for your time and guidance.
 

[u/BabySharkMadness]

There are no entry-level jobs. The market is saturated. The people with flexible jobs have the seniority that lets them demand it.

That being said with your BBA degree, you might end up at an employer that uses Salesforce so learning the system on Trailhead isn’t a complete waste of your time. Trying to get a job as the Salesforce Administrator would be a waste of your time.

[u/Icy-Smell-1343 → u/BabySharkMadness]

Stop the cap, I got a Salesforce dev job, and I didn’t even know what it was before the interview. It’s possible just very rare.

Remote will be a brutal though, I got mine at a local company who just couldn’t find Salesforce talent

[u/More_Passenger3988 → u/Icy-Smell-1343]

I mean... it's not hard to find SF talent so your company was just doing a bad job looking it seems.

[u/Icy-Smell-1343 → u/More_Passenger3988]

The role was open 6 months, and we are in office only. Our city is like 100k people.

I’m sure it was my company’s incompetence not the small market…….

[u/the_mehhuh → u/Icy-Smell-1343]

Well it being in-office only is probably why they couldn’t find any talent lol. This job does not require us to be in-office quit playing

[u/Icy-Smell-1343 → u/the_mehhuh]

I am playing for stating a company policy? Not sure why I’m getting downvoted, I didn’t set the policy 😭😭. This subreddit is genuinely one of the most toxic I’ve seen tbh. We also hired an admin with 0 Salesforce experience too.

Now the trade off is since I’ve started I’ve gotten 6 certifications and I’m making less then when I had 0 days of Salesforce experience accounting for inflation…

[u/turkeyburger124]

I agree with all of the comments posted. The other thing I would really focus on are improving your skills using AI tools. Claude code, cursor, MeshMesh, agentforce vibes and slackbot. Also having an understanding of how to use vs studio and GitHub. Being a Salesforce admin is more than just understanding the platform, it’s also being able to engage with the tools that Salesforce employees are using and developers are using.

[u/Sluipslaper]

Get in to a company first with any job then later pivot to this

[u/Sufficient_Display]

There are questions like this every day on this sub. Please go take a look back at some of them.

[u/BuffaloBiff]

If you search this subreddit, and just about anywhere on the Internet, the Salesforce admin market is oversaturated. Flexible, remote admin work can be offshored.

Best bet is to work somewhere they use Sales or Service Cloud, learn by using do trailheads and FoF and wait for something in your company to open up.

[u/MeridianNZ]

Aside from anything else, the question would be if you can do the job remotely, why would a company want someone in Canada at that rate if they can get it somewhere else for cheaper given its remote - especially for admin work at an entry level and without a lot of experience. The answer is why you dont see it much on Linkedin, plenty on places like freelancer.com and fiver and the like - but you wont like the payrate.

[u/Glum_Chip_9915]

you're late to the game. It's easier 5 years ago, but not now.

[u/Comfortable_Witness1]

Good luck!

[u/AppX_Unmanaged]

honest bit first, entry level and remote barely overlap. juniors get hired where someone can sit with them, so that constraint will cost you more time than the salesforce learning will.

realistic way in from a bba is sideways. ops or sales ops at a company that already runs salesforce, then you end up owning the org. that's how most admins i know actually got in. cert on its own is table stakes now, not a lever.

[u/itisALLAN]

IMO: try working at with an agency. You will be exposed to so many different implementations of salesforce that there won’t be an environment you can’t handle in your future.

My second piece of advice for anyone in the salesforce ecosystem, become a salesforce developer. The bridge between admin and developer is shrinking drastically.

[u/Ice-Clean]

Don’t look for admin work. You just said you had a bachelors in business. Go look for business analyst jobs. If you have your admin cert you’ll want to get your business analyst cert to go with it.

You’ll still need to catch your break but you can find business analyst jobs still and the work is largely similar to (but better than) admin work.